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They just couldn’t stop laughing, despite the vexed ambiance they had set around them. A mere glance to one another served as vinegar to baking soda, resulting in a volcanic eruption of laughter. As the monotonous sermon continued, the antsy children could not help but make each trickling minute more enjoyable. Phrases and words, not to mention metaphors and similes, were one of the several targets used as a source of entertainment. When the priest compared the stubbornness found in people to goats, the imaginative minds inherent in the children envisaged humans with heads of goats and goats with heads of humans.
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